What are you listening to?
What are you listening to?
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- detritus4
This was the first Aphex Twin tune I ever heard (Chillout Zone on MTV), and loved. I had no idea who or what an Aphex Twin was, but it blew my tiny little cloistered and ignorant 17 year old brain: I'd always liked electronic music, but this wasn't even music. This was something else.
Thank you, Richard D James. You changed my music forever.
- The video helped too - I was like
"wtf is this shit?! ... I love it!"detritus - Classic...and this video was directed strangely enough by Jarvis Cocker of Pulpyuekit
- ahr man yeah. 15 years old Come to Daddy. So cool. His videos shaped me as well. Shaped me and made me get into VFX. Over the moon when I meet cunninghammugwart
- Miss this creativity, so sad watching it slip awaymugwart
- sorry too much c++. Should be "15 years old when I heard ..."mugwart
- You mean musical creativity? I don't see it diminishing, in fact: the opposite. There's just SO MUCH more music out there, both wondrous and awful.detritus
- I mean that platform. It's there but it isnt sustainable.mugwart
- then again maybe it never was.mugwart
- Platform?detritus
- John Peel, Channel 4 (early). I know the internet but that seems even more monopolisedmugwart
- music directors would get paid as well! Now its all first time film makers trying to make a mark and willing to do for freemugwart
- The video helped too - I was like